A full game made from AI without an engine. Tim Sweeney is not amused.
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Making choices is a core gameplay mechanic, though. I'm not huge into visual novels, but I have to imagine that at least some have or might have, say, RNG based skill checks or the like. Finally, I would absolutely consider Choose Your Own Adventure as a game. (Not a video game, of course, but still.) The Wiki article even calls it a "gamebook" in the opening paragraph.
It's a game in only in that the only thing that makes it a game is simply choosing which text to read in what order. There is no interactivity in that, and there is no rule-set.
I mean, by that logic, slot machines aren't a game, since there's no interactivity. I suppose there is a ruleset, but ultimately all it's doing is choosing what order the reels are in, or, in more modern machines, simply choosing some random numbers.
They're not. They're also not supposed to be. That's what makes them gambling. The law refers to them as "Game of Chance" versus "Game of Skill". This goes all the way back to the first pinball systems at the turn of the 20th century. The first pinball games were entirely chance. Where the ball landed up is where you would get money or prices from what you put in. The lights and bells are just psychological tricks to keep you addicted to pulling the lever and putting money in.
When states started banning gambling, they started (literally) taking axes to the pinball machines. The pinball manufacturers (... and the mob...) added buttons that controlled levers, to keep the ball from falling into the slot. Thus, making it a game of skill under the law, rather than a game of chance.
I wouldn't consider a true game of chance to be a game, as it does not actually require any interactivity.
Google has "game" defined as
I mean, games of chance literally have "game" right in the title. Some gambling games, like poker, even have a high component of skill, even though chance plays a large role as well.